Your Free Speech does not give you a right name the place to make your point. By allowing protests around courthouses you are allowing intimidation. This law may not be the best way of doing it, but our society needs to carry some decorum. If you want to protest a ruling, go to the capital building and protest the Supreme Court there.

12:58 pm June 12, 2013

RP wrote:

I did not realize the food in the SCOTUS was so bad that employees regularly protested about it..

12:59 pm June 12, 2013

will or wont wrote:

how come comments permitted on some articles, but not others?

1:03 pm June 12, 2013

Dan wrote:

Free speech runs into trespassing. No one is stopping you from your speech. But there is no Freedom to speak it wherever you want. Just like politicians can't put campaign signs within 100 ft of a polling booth.

1:05 pm June 12, 2013

Jess Sayin wrote:

It's only right and proper that SCOTUS be subject to the same laws to which others are subjected.

1:47 pm June 12, 2013

Mike wrote:

"... and because it preserved “the appearance of the court as a body not swayed by external influence.”"

Oh pleeeaaase! After Roberts was threatened by Obama and several Democrat senators in the Obamacare decision, he flipped and flopped like a fish out of water and eventually tied himself in knots writing a convoluted mess. So much for the court as a body not swayed by external influence. It is quite responsive to Obamunism. John Marshall is spinning in his grave right now!

2:16 pm June 12, 2013

leeb wrote:

Judge Howell's judgment strikes one as silly.
Wonder if protesters are allowed in her court.
Protesters infringe on the freedom of movement
of those not protesting.

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